Extract from the Minutes of 1825. "The Conference do unanimously protest against an opinion which has on this occasion been insinuated in certain quarters, viz. that the system of discipline peculiar to Wesleyan Methodism directs or requires an official interference on the part of its Ministers and Pastors, in such cases as that which led to the recent proceedings at York. The Conference, on the contrary, solemnly declares that Mr. Thomas Hill, through the whole of this business, has acted on his own individual responsibility, and had no sanction whatever from the religious Society to which he belongs, or from the rules and usages by which that Society is governed."

Extract from the Christian Advocate. "The Conference of 1825 had, by special minute, unanimously protested against the opinion that the system of discipline peculiar to Wesleyan Methodism directs or requires an official interference on the part of its Ministers and Pastors,

IN REFERENCE TO THE CONDUCT OF INDIVIDUAL MINISTERS IN THEIR CIVIL CAPACITY. The Conference, on the contrary, solemnly declares that Mr. ****, through the whole of this business, has acted on his own individual responsibility, and had no sanction or authority whatever from the religious Society to which he belongs, or from the LAWS and usages by which that Society is governed. This is common sense, and this was Wesleyan law and usage until the year 1834, when it was argued that a Wesleyan Minister could do nothing as a man, and on his own individual responsibility as a citizen, but that," &c.

It will be observed that the words italicized in the preceding extract from the Minutes are omitted in the professed quotation of the passage by the Advocate; and the words which we have given in capitals in the second column, are not in the Minutes, but are foisted in by the Advocate, to give the passage a different sense, and to make it appear that the Conference of 1825 had renounced all control over its Preachers, in reference to their conduct as individuals in their civil capacity. With equal hardihood, it asserts that the Conference of 1834 assumed the entire control over individual Preachers in their civil capacity, as the following comparative view will show.

Extract from the Minutes of 1834, p. 104, 105. "That the first decision of the District meeting (Article 7)-which, without requiring from Mr. Stephens any unreasonable sacrifice of the right of private judgment, or any public renunciation of his peculiar opinions, ONLY demanded his resigna- tion of the office of Secretary to the Church separation Society, and his entire abstinence, until the direction of the Conference could be obtained, from all overt acts of hostility against the Religious Establishment of our country-has the approbation of the Conference.

"The Conference now requires from Mr. Stephens a distinct pledge, NOT IN REFERENCE TO ANY PECULIARITIES OF PRIVATE OPINION, but of his readiness to meet, as a Wesleyan Methodist Minister, the wishes of his brethren, and to consult the peace and good order of the Connexion by strictly refraining from all future proceedings, similar in character and spirit to those which have been so justly offensive in the past year, and to devote himself wholly to his proper work and calling; and on giving this pledge, Mr. Stephens shall be restored to his place in our Body."

Extracts from the Christian Advocate.

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"Until the year 1834, when it was argued that a Wesleyan Minister could do nothing as a man, and on his own individual re-ponsibility as a citizen, but that all his opinions, persuasions, and conscientious convictions, belonged to the Conference; which had power to exercise supreme dominion over the understanding, and social influence of its members. It was DECREED that the political question of the union between Church and State was a doctrine of the Body; as much so as JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH, and the WITNESS OF THE SPIRIT."

"All freedom of thought and action, in political matters, was notoriously annihilated by the Conference of 1834"!

And thus it is that the Association and its agents endeavour to persuade the ignorant, that Methodism as it is, is not Methodism as it was.

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

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